Bow Wood is a good example of the semi-natural oak and birch woodland that once cloaked the area. Set on a sloping site, it faces south and west across the Derwent Valley. At the top of the wood is the Wickey Tor, which offers stunning views towards the north-east across the valley and into the Peak District National Park.

Bow Wood is well used by local people walking the Shining Cliffs complex of paths. Here you will discover large beech and sycamore trees towering above bracken and recent clearing work has prompted the appearance of some young oaks.

Londonthorpe Wood is predominantly a woodland creation site planted in three phases from 1993-95. There is also smaller area of mature wood.

The site lies on the edge of Grantham next to the town's industrial estate, the National Trust 's Belton Park property, the Woodland Trust property and surrounding farmland. The new planting consists of mixed, mostly native, broadleaved species with ash and oak. The site contains many veteran trees – remnants of older parkland planting and the old hedgerows that transect the planting site.

Above the woodland creation site lies Alma Wood on top of the scarp slope, planted in the 1850s in memory of the Crimean War. Although planted, the wood is firmly established and contains the more common ancient woodland plants that have colonised from surrounding hedgerows, such as dogs mercury, cuckoo pint and enchanter's nightshade.

Due to decades of neglect and subsequent old age and storm damage the wood now holds an important and sustainable level of fallen and standing deadwood habitat which is important for invertebrates.

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